This government is betraying children on a grand scale, and making positive ‘choices’ impossible.
How should we study, present, and represent the radical right? Some from among the hitherto quiet observers speak up, in the interests of a broader conversation.
A decade after the financial crash, an epic repeat is on course. Español
Brexit funder said staff working for his controversial Leave campaign were put on different contracts, and declared to elections watchdog. But evidence seen by openDemocracy tells a very different story.
If Labour seeks to mobilize its traditional working-class base, changes in MPs´ backgrounds may be far more relevant than any change in its policies.
Stop and Search is to modern policing what bloodletting was to ancient medicine - ineffective, but clung to.
We must not replace misleading and dehumanising portraits of migration with mono-dimensional accounts of vulnerability and victimhood, which paradoxically continue to set those on the move apart from us.
Theresa May has made no indication or commitment that she plans to hold onto some hardwon vital safeguards after Brexit.
Major Brexit bankroller, now under investigation by the National Crime Agency, “deliberately misled” Parliament about his insurance company’s political work, and amassed campaign data ‘warchest’.
There is a key democracy argument in this new book which calls for an urgent step change in our liberal democracies and a new type of political leadership.
Even if the UK parliament approves a Brexit agreement it will satisfy no one. The real choice the country faces is beween re-entering the EU or becoming a satellite of Washington.
A co-founder of the women’s group responds to openDemocracy’s report analysing opposition to potential gender recognition reforms in the UK.
